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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Once Upon a Time... There Was Candy

Have you seen that new show Once Upon a Time? I LOVE it! It's the next best thing to LOST.

It's premise is fairy tales, which are just the most timeless and timely stories. Of course, they are also terrifying in part, and that spooky element is beautifully done in the show.

One of my favorites - Snow White - is prominently featured - and with her, one of my FAVORITE themes - the poisoned apple. I loved this in the Bible, in Snow White, I loved it in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and everywhere else I've ever seen it.

It's such a classic struggle of temptation - anyone who has ever been on a diet knows that - against carpe diem. It's always a page turner, and no human can fail to empathize.

I remember my mother's parents - whose home was so completely elegant and filled with exotic and beautiful things - had a dish of ribbon candy on their coffee table at Christmas. I LOVE ribbon candy. The urge to eat about 85 squillion pieces of it every time I was there was pretty powerful. But my grandparents were not the kind of people who would let that kind of thing go by. I think they would have gone all fairytale on me!

So this week, when I saw these amazing Peppermint Christmas Tree Ornaments - I almost fainted! I was transported back to my seat on my grandmother's green velvet couch in front of that dish of gorgeous mint candy and I HAD to buy them and craft with them. Seriously - look how cute they are. They have GINGERBREAD MEN ON THEM!

And since I had this week's Color Throwdown combo to inspire me, the rest was easy! This combo really said winter/holiday to me.

And because today is the Stamps of Life/Twinery blog hop, I thought I'd hop right in! I'm feeling hoppy this week!

Now, when I saw this candy, this color combo and the hop, a flash of inspiration struck me, which doesn't happen very often, so I really felt like I should take advantage of it.

Remember the tried and true 2-4-6-8 box from the early days of stamping??

Well I measured my peppermint candy tree and the diameter of the base is 2" and it's 3" tall. So here are the instructions for this impromptu box.

Start with an 8.5 x 7" piece of cardstock. Score at 2, 4, 6 and 8 on the 8.5" side. On the 7" side, score at 2, flip it and score the other end at 2.

Cut on your score lines up to the main body of the box. Cut out the tabs for the 1/2" pieces - it folds nicer this way. Before adhering your box, use the SU Scalloped oval punch to punch a window in the end panel. Then, put it together, pop in your cute tree, adhere two of the top flaps closed and tent two of them and secure with twine and VOILA!!!

Now if you are on the TSOL/Twinery hop and came here from Stacey Winter's blog, then your next stop on the hop is Caroline Stender. You DEFINITELY want to visit everyone on the hop, because if you leave comments for everyone, two lucky peeps will win prizes!

102 comments:

Oh my gosh, this is SO cute! I haven't seen OUAT, but I thought it looked pretty good. I might have to DVR it this week. As for the ribbon candy, I definitely remember that at my grandparent's home! What great memories. Your box is adorable. I think you did a wonderful job.

I feel we live a parallel life. LOL Once Upon a Time is our new favorite family show with the 2 kids who still live at home and yes, the are 15 1/2 and almost 21. We will never grow up. LOL And the ribbon candy (same here) :) This is an adorable project. Love everything about it!

OH WOWSERS that is just simply amazing you just blew my socks off now need to find them again...This is just incredible havn't seen anything like this before!THankyou for making something so beautiful!

Well isn't that the cutest box I've seen. I love the little hanging lights and see through window. Nice job. That candy always used to be stuck together and we had to break it apart in order to get a piece to eat. It was so good though.

Wow, you really outdid yourself! This box is darling! Love the snowy border and the beautiful painted bulbs! That candy looks amazing! (ps I'm in LOVE with Once Upon A Time. It keeps getting better and better!)

OMG! The box is dee-lightful! Love 3-d stuff! Now, if last week on Halloween you would have come to my door wearing a particularly dark and evil costume, I would have stood back and exclaimed "O, U, R scary!!"

Such a deliciousy cute creation; the adorable meter hit the top! I was just telling someone how "Once Upon a Time" reminds me of "Lost" in that the backstories of the characters are fascinating and make the show addictive. Love it! Oh, and "urretopt" as in, Lydia, with your darling project today "you re-topped" yourself!

love, love, love that little box! your candy trees, i can imagine on the gingerbread house or on the witches house in the woods for hansel and gretel to find! once upon a time is a new favorite for us! so cute how you cut out the lights and strung them the twine! great project and thanks for the inspiration!

lovin' the aqua chalet, and yes, I agree on the new show! I'm a Tenth Kingdom fan too; if you haven't seen it, it's worth searching for the DVDs! thanx for the inspiration and blog candy opp! - sue dot blondin at gmail dot com

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